Events…
We run inclusive community kindness events each month.
And you’re invited!!!
We’re all about spreading kindness, increasing mental health and decreasing social isolation.
We actively facilitate people getting to know each other and everyone is welcome.
So far we have…
- Community Coffee Catchups
- Painted Kindness Rocks at our Kind Cafes and community events
- Packed toiletries bags for survivors of domestic violence
- Speed 1:1 Networked for a Cause
- Chalk Walk n Talked kind messages at local parks
- Given Free Hugs at The Strand (collaborating with Renew Yourself Mindset and Chasing Dreams Photos by V)
Upcoming Events:
C arers Week
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Cost: FREE!!!
Date & Time: Friday October 16th from 10.30am – 12pm
A FREE, fun morning to support carers… all welcome!
Feel Good Bingo Rock Painting
FREE coffee for carers kindly donated from the Pay it Forward Coffee Board at Missy Moo’s Coffee
Goody Bags for carers (pssst…we are looking for a sponsor for this!)Past Events:
Kindness Poetry Competition
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Write a poen on the topic “I See Kindness”
EDIT: I LOVE your poems- they are very uplifting to read 
. FYI I also run the Townsville Poetry FB page and I encourage you to share your poems there too- we are a very appreciative audience. Have a great day!
Kindness Rocks – Rock Painting Event
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Cost: FREE!!!
Date & Time: Friday July 17th from 10.30am – 12pm
You are invited to join us for a fun morning painting Kindness Rocks to give away 
Free event- all materials supplied
Bookings essential (limited numbers.)
Thanks to our Kind Cafe Missy Moos Coffee for your sponsorship and for hosting us.
Thanks to our sponsor Messages on Hold Townsville.
Food will be available to purchase at the cafe
Wheelchair accessible.
Food and drink will be available for purchase at the cafe
Please RSVP and let us know what you are bringing- thanks!
Toiletries Bags for Domestic Violence Survivors
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Date & Time: Friday June 12th from 10.30am – 12pm
Cost: FREE but we’d love you to bring a toothbrush and toothpaste to put in the bags
Let’s get behind domestic violence survivors and show them that we care…
- pack a toiletries bag with essentials (list below)
- colour in a ‘Believe in Yourself’ card and add a personal message of support.
We’ve had some beautiful handmade toiletries bags donated by Diligent Supports and created by a special client with a big heart. Please bring along a toothbrush and toothpaste to add to the bag. Other donations/ sponsors are very welcome. FREE event thanks to Missy Moos Coffee and Messages on Hold Townsville.
Wheelchair accessible.
Food and drink will be available for purchase at the cafe
Please RSVP and let us know what you are bringing- thanks!
Toiletries essentials we would like to include:
- toothbrush and toothpaste (can everyone coming please bring these two)
- deodorant
- personal hygiene products
- shampoo and conditioner
- body wash
- hair brush
Additional items like hair ties and moisturizer are also welcome
‘CAN DO’ Food Pantry Day plus Kindness Rocks
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Date & Time: Friday May 15th from 10.30am – 12pm
Cost: FREE but we’d love yo0u to bring a can or 2
Let’s share the love! (and the food)
Come along, bring a can or 2 and
- Restock Community Food Pantrys
PLUS paint a Kindness Rock to give away
Any long life ‘cyclone kit’ food is welcome.
We are aiming to collect 300 food items by the end of May…can you help us?
- FREE event
- Wheelchair accessible
- Child Friendly
Thanks to our host and sponsor Missy Moos Coffee and Messages on Hold Townsville.
RSVP’s encouraged but not essential
No Stupid Questions – Wheelchair Edition
Date & Time: Saturday April 11th from 2.00pm – 4:15pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Cost: $25 per ticket
Your ticket price includes a drink and nibbles, and a $10 donation to Queensland Disability Network.
If you genuinely want to increase your empathy and understanding and sometimes kick yourself for saying the wrong thing (who doesn’t?!) then this is an event for you.
Our brave special guest Danya Pilchowski is a 23 year old successful local artist and digital art teacher. Danya also happens to have multiple chronic health conditions, and often uses a wheelchair to get around.
Come ask Danya about
- what it’s like to use a wheelchair
- the life of a a young artist
- living with chronic health conditions
- what to or not to say to someone in a wheelchair
- and more…
Genuine, supportive, inquisitive questions are welcome. This is an opportunity to grow and connect and of course, there are NO stupid questions.
Your ticket price includes a drink and nibbles, and a $10 donation to Queensland Disability Network.
You may have already met the bright and bubbly Danya at Popfest, Citilibraries, North Townsville Community Hub, or the Drill Hall, or local schools, or read the local children’s book illustrated by Danya ‘Pig and Roo go to Kathmandu’. Danya was a recent recipient of the RADF grant, and also taught at the Townsville University Hospital School. Find out more about Danya and view classes and artworks at www.danyasdesigns.com.au
Thanks to Nikki from Missy Moos Coffee for her sponsorship
and thanks to @centacare NQ for the use of the lovely Community Room
International Womens Day
Date & Time: Friday, March 13th from 10.30 am – 12.00 pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Come and celebrate International Women’s Day with us!
- Connect over a cuppa
- Chat with our special guests:
Nicole McLachlan – Townsville Citizen of the Year and Foster Mamma Bear (Foster Mum to nearly 70 kids)
PLUS
- Paint a Kindness Rock
- Goody Bags for women
- FREE event (limited places- registrations essential)
- Food and drink available for purchase
Thank You Day – For our SES Volunteers
Date & Time: Friday, February 20th from 10.30 am – 12.00 pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Let’s say Thank You to our fantastic SES Volunteers! 
Come along and colour in/ write on a Thank You card (provided) and bring a tea room item to create a yummy gift hamper (e.g. hot chocolate, Tim Tams, etc) You can also donate a Pay it Forward Coffee for SES if you like.
Community Christmas Kindness
Date & Time: Friday, December 12th from 10.30 am – 12.00 pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
It’s Party time!
Random Acts of Kindness are Addictive!
Date & Time: Friday, November 14th from 10.00 am – 11.30pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
It’s KINDNESS WEEK which means Random Acts of Kindness Fun!
Join us at Missy Moos Coffee for…
- Get to know you games
- Create Random Acts of Kindness Packs to give to a friend and a stranger
- participate in some sneaky Random Acts of Kindness…we can’t tell you any more…we want to surprise the recipients of this one
We guarantee you’ll have fun and leave the world a little bit brighter.
This is a FREE community event- food and drink will be available for purchase.
Fully wheelchair accessible. All welcome
Kindly sponsored by our Kind Cafe Missy Moos Coffee and Messages on Hold Townsville
Community Mental Health Mood Booster!
Date & Time: Friday, October 10th from 10.30 am – 12.00pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
This Mental Health Day come and have fun with us!!!
HAVE FUN playing Feel Good Bingo (with prizes) & CREATE a Positive Message Wall for the Medicare Mental Health Centre foyer.
LEARN about Townsville Medicare Mental Health Centre from our guest speaker.
Everyone is welcome
This is a FREE event run by The Kindness Catalyst and sponsored by Donna Glass from Helen Munro Property.
Food and drink will be available for purchase.
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible.
RSVP Thurs Oct 9
Thank You Thursday for Paramedics!
Date & Time: Thursday, August 14th from 10.30 am – 12.00pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Let’s say Thank You to our fantastic local Paramedics!
Food Share!
Date & Time: Thursday, July 10th from 10.30 am – 12.00pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Come and learn about The Kindness Catalyst’s new Food Share initiative, making it easier to share food with those in need.
As usual, there will be fun games…
And you can hear about a local Food Pantry.
We’d love you to bring a long life food item or 2 to donate.
And if you have some garden produce, you’re welcome to bring that along to share with attendees.
This is a FREE event thanks to our generous sponsor Donna Glass from Helen Munro Property and our Kind Cafe Missy Moos Coffee.
Food and drink will be available for purchase.
Wheelchair accessible venue
All welcome
P.S. If you run a Townsville organisation that gives away food, we’d love to hear from you, because we’d like to help You can send me a message, email me fiona@thekindnesscatalyst.com.au or register your organisation here… https://thekindnesscatalyst.com.au/food-share/
A Men’s Health Week Event for everyone!
Date & Time: Thursday, June 12th from 10.30 am – 12.30pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Let’s celebrate our men!
A Men’s Health week event for men and women
- 3x $50 vouchers donated by Donna Glass from Helen Munro Property
- 3D Printer Demo by Steve
- Games
- Goody Bags (guys can take one home for themselves, women can take one home for a valued male. (women- can you please bring a share bag of fun size chocs to contribute)
Food and coffee are available for purchase.
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
FREE Kindness Rocks! – Rock Painting Session
Date & Time: Thursday 29th of May 2025 – 10.30am – 12pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, in the Centacare building.
Come and have fun painting kindness rocks with us!
It’s easy to do with colourful Posca Paint pens. We have plenty of examples or create your own!
Everyone is welcome
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Missy Moo’s 1st Birthday Party
Date & Time: Friday, March 21st from 10.30 am – 12.00pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – 410 Ross River Rd, Cranbrook QLD 4814
Missy Moos is having a party and you’re invited!
It’s also Harmony Day- so that’s double the reason to celebrate!
*FREE cake
*party games
*Pocket Hug Cards
*Angel Paws puppies (donations accepted)
*email us a family recipe and we’ll give you a print out of everyone’s faves Email to fiona@thekindnesscatalyst.com.au
*you might like to wear something of cultural/ family significance or the official Harmony Day colour-orange (not essential)
This is a FREE event and everyone is invited. It is also wheelchair accessible.
Food and drink is available for purchase at the cafe. Missy Moos is a proud Kind Cafe with a Community Pay it Forward Board…”Give what you can, take what you need”
Many thanks to our supporters @donnaglass-helenmunroproperty and The Kindness Fairy
It would be helpful (but not necessary) if you can indicate if you are planning to come 🙂
Networking for Kindness
Date & Time: Friday, April 4th from 9 am – 10.30am (open networking from 8.30 am)
Location: Sticks & Grinds Cafe – 28 Palm Drive, Deeragun, QLD 4814
Come and connect with other local businesses and community groups, while supporting a great cause.
You can enjoy a coffee and cake and $10 from your ticket will be donated to North Townsville Community Hub, to support their ongoing disaster relief support.
This is a facilitated event.
We’ll be there from 8.30 if you’d like to start chatting early.
Thank You Thursday
Date & Time: Thursday, February 13th from 10.30 am – 12.30pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee – In the Centrecare meeting room @410 Ross River Rd, Cranbrook QLD 4814
Let’s say thanks to the beautiful Oncology team at Townsville University Hospital
Come along and colour in/ write on a Thank You card (provided) and bring a tea room item to create a gift hamper (e.g. hot chocolate, Tim Tams, etc)
We’ll also be chatting about past and future Community Kindness Events- we’d love your feedback and ideas
This is a FREE event. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Hosted by Missy Moos Coffee, a Kind Cafe located in the Centacare Building.
Special thanks to Centacare NQ for donating their air-conditioned meeting room for this event
and Donna Glass- Helen Munro Property for your generous sponsorship
Kindness Fun Day
Date & Time: Tuesday, January 14th from 1pm – 3pm
Location: Sticks & Grinds Cafe @ Woodlands Village Shopping Centre, 28 Palm Dr, Deeragun QLD 4818
Have some fun with FREE fun kindness activities!
- Paint a Kindness Rock, Chalk some kind messages on the sidewalk and help create a Community Kindness Mural.
- Kids can get their face painted (for a fee).
There’s lots of fun for everyone! Children must be accompanied by an adult (adults- you can choose to either join in the fun or sit and have a cuppa at our the cafe) - Adults are welcome without kids too
- Sticks and Grinds Cafe is a Kind Cafe- they host regular Kindness Events and have a Pay it Forward Board and a Words of Encouragement box available for community use.
- Thank you so much to our sponsors @Donna Glass- Helen Munro Property and The Kindness Fairy and our anonymous donors for help making these events free and accessible to everyone.
- FYI this venue is wheelchair accessible
Poetry Competition for Kindness Week
Date & Time: Entries Close Saturday Nov 9th 2024
Location: Online.
Winner announced at Sticks & Grinds Cafe @ Woodlands Village Shopping Centre, 28 Palm Dr, Deeragun QLD 4818
Are you a budding poet?
We’re holding a Poetry Competition for World Kindness Week!
And the topic is, you guessed it…
Kindness!
Entry is FREE and open now…
All 3 finalists will have their poems shared on our socials and the Townsville Poetry Facebook page.
Plus they get a chance to read their poem at our Christmas Art Market and Kindness Catalyst Merch Launch 1-4 Sat Nov 16 at Sticks and Grinds Cafe in Deeragun, where the winner will be announced. (don’t worry, we can also read it for you and you don’t have to be there to win )
Each finalist will win a cafe voucher kindly donated by Sticks and Grinds Cafe.
Additionally…
- the winner will receive a Pick-me-up Pack from The Kindness Catalyst
- second place will receive a Kindness Activity Pack for Two
- third place will receive a Treat Bundle.
Entry is free and everyone is welcome.
Please email entries to fiona@thekindnesscatalyst.com.au by Saturday Nov 9
Thanks to our sponsor Donna Glass- Helen Munro Property
Christmas Art Market & Kindness Catalyst Merch Launch
Date & Time: Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 1.00pm – 4.00pm
Location: Sticks & Grinds Cafe @ Woodlands Village Shopping Centre, 28 Palm Dr, Deeragun QLD 4818
Local established and emerging artists will be exhibiting their wares and chatting about how they got into art.
You’ll meet…
Danya’s Designs (local illustrator and digital artist/ teacher), Maggie O Digital Art (digital artist and author/ illustrator), and our two potters Susanne from Happy Clay and Ingrid from Treadles & Trinkets.
It’s World Kindness Week and we’re officially launching The Kindness Catalyst merchandise which raises funds to run community kindness events in Townsville.
Please come along and bring friend to support us and buy a cuppa at our Kind Cafe Sticks and Grinds Cafe (and check out their Pay it Forward Board and Kind Words Box).
Special thanks goes to Donna Glass- Helen Munro Property for your kind sponsorship.
Mental Health Week Mood Boost
Date & Time: Tuesday October 8, 2024 at 10.00am – 12.00pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee (in the blue Centacare building) @ 410 Ross River Rd, Cranbrook QLD 4814, Australia
Cost: Donations will be accepted for Angel Paws pet rescue
This Mental Health Week, enjoy a pick-me-up at our community coffee catchup
- Feel-good Bingo (with prizes)
- Create a Random Act of Kindness Card with a small gift
- Furry cuddles from Angel Paws animals
RU OK Day Community Coffee Catchup at Missy Moos Coffee
Date & Time: Thursday September 12, 2024 at 10.00am – 12.00pm
Location: Missy Moos Coffee (in the blue Centacare building) @ 410 Ross River Rd, Cranbrook QLD 4814, Australia
Cost: A gold coin contribution is optional but definitely not necessary.
Get out of the house for RU OK day and come for a Community Cuppa.
We’ll have fun activities to join in. Come on your own or bring a friend and score them a free coffee from the Pay it Forward Board (first 10 friends).